The online event followed a successful tweetathon carried out by YAS last August.

Executive director of operations Dr David Macklin said: “Opening up our emergency operations centre through Twitter is a great way of giving everyone an insight into what happens when you call 999.

"Our staff deal with a huge variety of calls, as we showed in our last tweetathon where in the space of 24 hours we tweeted about everything from assisting the delivery of a baby over the phone to sending support to road traffic collisions.

“We will always respond to people with serious or life-threatening illnesses or injuries that need time-critical medical assistance."

To learn more about the calls staff took, visit the YAS Twitter page at www.twitter.com/YorksAmbulance, or use the hashtag #YAS247. The tweetathon finished at 9am on Saturday, December 19.

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